Does lifelong high-volume endurance training cause chronic right ventricular damage in male elite master athletes?
Lifelong high-volume endurance training in male elite master athletes does not appear to cause chronic right ventricular damage, challenging the hypothesis of exercise-induced arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
Based on our results, chronic right ventricular damage in elite endurance master athletes with lifelong high training volumes seems to be unlikely. Thus, the hypothesis of an exercise-induced arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy has to be questioned.
Bohm et al. (2016) studied this question.